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QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 03:49 PM) come on Rock. Connie's pizza sucks. Ok, best food at the park...the barbeque beef sandwich in the club level. Boo ya. Boo yuk... Nothing beats the hot dog. Nothing.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 03:41 PM) Says the avid-cotton candy eater. LMAO..

Damn Soxy.. you beat me to posting the late nite tv liners.. Oh well.. how about this.. http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/02/1...06021406_04.txt Records show Cheney never took hunter's safety classes By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 02/14/2006 HELENA - Vice President Dick Cheney, who shot his companion in a Texas hunting accident over the weekend, has not taken state-offered hunter's safety education courses in either his home state of Wyoming or Texas, records show. Eric Keszler, a spokesman for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said Monday the state has no record of Cheney ever taking a hunter's education course. Tom Harvey, of Texas Parks and Wildlife, said there is no record of the vice president taking a course there, either. Both states require hunters to take safety education courses, but only for people born after a certain date. Cheney, at 65, is too old to be required to take the courses in either Wyoming or Texas. Wyoming requires hunter's education courses for all hunters born after Jan. 1, 1966, while Texas requires the courses of all hunters born after Sept. 2, 1971. Cheney was born in 1941. According to information released Monday by Texas game authorities, the vice president did have a valid hunting license, but he didn't have a required upland game bird stamp a Texas requirement that went into effect at the beginning of hunting season there last fall. Texas game authorities issued the vice president a warning citation, which they typified as "routine." Cheney on Saturday shot 78-year-old Harry Whittington, an Austin lawyer, in the face, neck and torso with bird shot while hunting quail at a south Texas ranch, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Accident investigation documents released Monday. Whittington was retrieving a bird behind the rest of the hunters. Cheney accidentally shot him as Whittington rejoined the group and Cheney was focused on another covey of quail. Cheney was firing a 28 gauge Perazzi shotgun. He shot Whittington at about 30 yards, the investigation concluded. It's possible the vice president took a National Rifle Association hunter's safety course in Wyoming as a young man. "Our state department has only been teaching (the course) since the early 1970s," Keszler said. Before that, Keszler said, the NRA taught hunter's education in Wyoming. The state does not maintain records of hunters who took NRA classes. A representative of the vice president did not respond to reporter's questions about whether the vice president took an NRA hunter safety course. LMAO.. poor guy.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) how did u manage to do that? I'm pretty sure their is a 2 ticket limit to opening day and the cubs games. That's 2 tickets combined. Expect some of your orders not going through. I'm just going by what my ticket rep said and the emails. Hopefully it works for you. 2 tickets per game. He's fine

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 12:12 PM) That is the height of tacky. If it was me, I would show up with a card and a list of what I donated in their name to the local crisis shelter. Ooooo.... good idea.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:58 AM) One point I haven't seen mentioned, but it's possible I misunderstood what Steff said. Are not showers supposed to be thrown FOR someone, like a friend, as opposed to being thrown BY the mother to be? Oh... my sister-in-laws are throwing it... but she did ask for it. LMAO.. her PAY for her own shower.. for shame!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:49 AM) Don't be tacky, get diapers for the kid . . . dammit, SS beat me to it. LOL.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) Her? Or the baby? He shoots.. he scores!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:36 AM) OMG, asking for a Shower!! That is tacky. Now I'm on the same page and understand some of the comments. And that aint even the tip of the iceburg.. :headshake Over time we've just come to look past her when she talks. But this one.. oye... I, who shocks rarely, was shocked... My sister and I have decided to get her diapers.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:10 AM) I don't think so. You get one. That's it. Ideally that one would be for twins - one boy and one girl. I don't think so either.. but according to etiquette.. it is.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) So many jokes, so little time. I think it's tacky to have another "Shower" and accept gifts. So what if it's the first girl / boy. We had out first daughter Jun 30 and our second Dec 27. Would it have been OK to have a shower because we didn't have any winter baby clothes? That is actually one of the acceptable reasons to have another one.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 11:02 AM) But but but it was Christmas, and she might have missed the presents!! You betcha... and everyone said it the second they walked out the door...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:57 AM) I would have died of embarrasment for her. I think regardless of the circuimstances, saying your having a shower (1st 2nd, 3rd, etc) because they need stuff, is tacky. Embarrased for her... hehe.. she's the one that suggested having the damn thing!!! This one.. is quite the piece of work. This is the one that brought her kid ONE DAY removed from puking his guts out with the stomach flu to our house on X-mas eve, got everyone sick and we couldn't visit Joey for a week!!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:37 AM) Someday, they will come up with a way to say that and not make me feel ill. I dont have any problems with it, relatives have had the procedure, but just the thought of it makes me uneasy. there just isnt an easy or nice way to say "vasectomy" "snipped".

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) I can see that, I think calling it something else would probably be appropriate. I'd cringe at telling everyone that reason. BTW, will the dad-to-be also be invited? I love that new tradition of inviting the guy to the Wedding and Baby showers. And that's the problem.. they had NO PROBLEM telling everyone that. Ugh.. my jaw hit the floor when they said that. :headshake No idea if hubby will be involved.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) I personally agree 100%, but not everyone thinks like that unfortunately. I know we are having the talk about getting one of us fixed right now. I think you guys met Beth.. not the sharpest tool in the shed, and both children she already has have serious developmental issues (and the DR's have hinted at this one having DS with major retardation). She's the "poor me" one in the family.

QUOTE(thedoctor @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) we had two before our daughter was born, but that was primarily because i'm from chicago and my wife (now ex-wife) was from ohio. we did one here and one in chicago. other than that and a clear case of need, i can't see the purpose of two. My sister had 3 before her first (her job, florida (where she lived at the time), and here in Illinois). I think that's OK.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Having a party to celebrate the coming of another child seems nice to me. I'm in favor of everyone celebrating new life, beats the worse case alternative by a mile. So if we are starting new traditions, I like this one. After what we all just dealth with I'm in favor of a party to celebrate as well.. but a shower " to get girl stuff cause she doesn't have any" I find icky.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2006 -> 10:27 AM) Its more common nowadays than it ever has been, but still isn't looked at too highly as I understand it. To be honest the way I had it explained to me, the poorer you are, the less down it is looked upon. It used to be this never happened, but those kind of old traditions are slowly fading away. I know its expensive to raise a baby, and I could understand this in some cases... It's 2006... if you can't afford a 3rd child.. take measures not to have one... JMO.

Is a second baby shower tacky? Jim's sisters daughter is having another baby (3rd - a girl - she has 2 boys under 6) and they are throwing her a shower. The reason (they said this) is because she doesn't have any girl stuff...?? Am I crazy or is that just plain stupid logic?

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QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Feb 13, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) Fidel Castro must be disgusted right now seeing both Contreras and El Duque standing next to our president. I don't think he cares as much as the Yanks do...

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